Beirut News: New Beirut Video - The Concubine

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"The Concubine" comes from the Holland portion of Zach Condon's fantastic double-EP release from earlier this year. It's the EP for which he dusted off his old Realpeople moniker and got back to playing with laptops and keys. That said, this track is a departure from typical Beirut stuff more for its groove than its instrumentation (here accordion and trumpet, per usual), but the pulse beneath is this groovy sort of march which, particularly when performed live along with the rest of that EP's tunes at those stellar Brooklyn shows, pulled the tarp off just one more...